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Re: How does your garden grow, FS?

[(Anonymous)]

Depending on where you are/how hot it gets where you are, violets, violas, and English violas are all good for shade, and some smell good. Violets and English violas are perennials in most places, and violas will self seed in areas with enough winter chill and rain. They'll flower better with some sun, but they don't need a lot and make good ground-cover. Woodland strawberry is like the native American version (actually a couple related species, I think) of the European alpine strawberry. It makes teensy red berries instead of supermarket monster fruit, but it's like the taste of a big strawberry got condensed down into a little tiny fruit. Unlike alpine strawberries, woodland strawberry spreads by runners and doesn't need a lot of sun, so it's another good ground-cover.

I don't know if deer like violets or strawberries, but even if they like both, given the right growing conditions (enough water, mostly) they're hard to kill. If you live in the right climate zone, lily of the valley is pretty, smells nice, is poisonous so deer won't eat it (I doubt kids would either unless you've got toddlers that are at the taste-test everything stage) and also borderline invasive in the right conditions. There's a pink flowered version that's supposed to be less vigorous. It's not cold enough in winter for it to naturalize where I am.

I've never seen that rose site before. helpmefind.com/roses is my go-to rose reference site.

Re: How does your garden grow, FS?

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Seconding violas and their cousins pansies. They do fine in shade and, if your summers are mild, will last a long while. In hot climates, they're planted in fall for winter & early spring color -- I've seen them shrug off snowstorms with no problem -- but in cool climates you can keep them going.

I know a bit about roses -- I had over 50 different antique/heirloom varieties in my yard before the combined heat/drought in summer 2010 killed a bunch of them -- and none of them really appreciate shade. There's a type of heirloom rose called "Hybrid Musks" that can take more shade than others, but most of them tend to be a tad ill-behaved, throwing their long, lanky canes around and sprawling a bit. They prefer warm climates -- I think Zone 7, maybe Zone 6, is their limit -- and tend to flower better in fall than in spring. Another thing to take into account -- deer like roses. On the plus side, though, planting something thorny might keep your neighbors' roaming kids out of your yard (where they don't belong). If the area you want to put one gets at least a half day of sun, I'd say go ahead and try it.